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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A California Christian university has asked a professor who was once its chair of theology and philosophy to leave after he came out as transgender.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a _fcksavedurl="http://www.apu.edu/theology/faculty/hclements/" href="http://www.apu.edu/theology/faculty/hclements/" target="_blank">Heather Clements</a>&nbsp;taught theology at Azusa Pacific University for 15 years, but this past year, he began referring to himself as H. Adam Ackley.&nbsp;“This year has been a transition from being a mentally ill woman to being a sane, transgendered man,” he said.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ackley, who is in his third year of a five-year contract at a school that does not use the tenure system,&nbsp;said&nbsp;<a _fcksavedurl="http://www.apu.edu/about/sexuality/" href="http://www.apu.edu/about/sexuality/" target="_blank">university policies</a>&nbsp;seem to be silent about transgender issues, except that “Humans were created as gendered beings.”</p><p><a href="http://sojo.net/blogs/2013/09/24/transgender-theology-professor-asked-leave-christian-college" target="_blank">read more</a></p>AcademiaAPUAzusa Pacific UniversityChristian CollegeChristian transphobiacollegeCouncil for Christian Colleges and UniversitiesGendergender identity disordergender rolesGod's PoliticsH. Adam AckleyHeather Clementstheology professortransgenderHuman RightsLife and PeaceTue, 24 Sep 2013 14:46:35 +0000Sarah Pulliam Bailey50486 at http://sojo.net